15 - 18 JAN 2027
How the weekend works
The rest of this site is about the house. This page is the part that decides whether the weekend is any good: when the door opens, who does the cooking, and what needs to be in the car before you set off.
Nobody is cooking for you
The house is self catering. There is a full kitchen with an induction hob, a coffee machine and a fridge big enough to be worth arguing over, and a table that seats everyone at once. There is no restaurant on the site and no breakfast appears in the morning. What you pay to register buys your bed, and nothing on that invoice is food.
That is not a complaint about the house. A kitchen you can actually cook in, for a group who all know each other by Saturday, beats a hotel buffet comfortably. It only works if somebody has decided in advance who is buying what, which is why it gets decided in advance rather than at eleven on the Friday night with nothing in the fridge.
What to put in the bag
The house covers more than people expect, so the list of things to bring is shorter than it looks like it should be.
Already there
- Your own shower and your own toilet, in every bedroom
- Hot water, enough of it that nobody has to go last
- A full kitchen: induction hob, oven, coffee machine, a large fridge
- Plates, pans and everything else you cook and eat with
- Free WiFi throughout
- Free parking outside the door
Bring
- Warm clothes, and something genuinely waterproof. January in the Ardennes is cold and wet, and the terrace is the good bit.
- Swimwear, if you intend to use the spa.
- Anything you take regularly. The nearest pharmacy is not around the corner.
- A charger.
- Whatever you specifically want to drink.
Not settled yet
- Whether bed linen and towels are provided. The venue’s photographs show towels on the beds, which is suggestive but is not a promise.
- The arrival window on Friday, the departure time on Monday, and how keys are handed over.
- How food actually gets organised: a kitty, a shopping run, a cooking rota, or everyone for themselves.
- Where the nearest shop is, and whether Rochehaut has one.
These get answered here and in an email before anyone needs to pack.
Who you are sharing with
One of you books the room and becomes its leader. That gives you a group code, a short string you pass to whoever is sharing with you, and they enter it from their own registration instead of booking a second room.
Two things are worth knowing before you try it. The code only exists once the room is paid for, so the leader has to have finished paying before there is anything to hand out. And a code only works for the grade it belongs to: if the leader booked a standard room and you booked a premium one, the site refuses the join rather than quietly moving one of you.
Looking up a code before you commit shows you the grade and how many of the beds are taken. It does not show you who is in it.
Once the room is paid for, the leader picks the actual bedroom off the floor plan, one floor at a time. Rooms other groups have claimed are not selectable, so the earlier you finish paying the more of the house is still on the board. That, rather than the price, is the reason to book early.
Getting there
Les Maisons des BalconsRue de la Cense 12
6830 Rochehaut sur Semois
Belgium
- Brussels
- 2h
- Luxembourg
- 1h30
- Libramont station
- 30min
Parking is free on site. There is no bus up the hill, so plan to share cars from Libramont.
Open directions
If you are coming by train
Sort the last half hour before you book the first two. Libramont is the station to aim for, and somebody with a car has to agree to collect you from it. Ask first and buy the ticket second, rather than arriving on the platform hoping.
15 - 18 JAN 2027
Rooms are open
Pick a room grade, say who you are sharing with, and claim your actual bedroom off the floor plan. It takes about five minutes and you can come back and add extras later.
- Per room, per night, from
- €70
- Rooms still open
- 8
- Registration closes
- 9 January 2027
Per room, per night, from
Rooms still open
Registration closes